User guide

Reviewer’s Guide [ 21 ]
Summary
The following is a summary of the new and enhanced features in Corel Painter 12.
Workflow and customization
• Feel right at home with a redesigned workspace that gives you easier
access to tools, media, commands, and features.
• Find your brush faster with the
improved Brush Library panel that
integrates both brush categories and variants.
• Better orient yourself in the document window with the
new Navigator
panel , which makes it easier to manuever large canvases.
• Organize collections of similar items easier than ever with
enhanced library
management for brushes, paper textures, color sets, and gradients, looks,
and weaves.
• Adjust colors on the fly, within the context of your image with the
new
Temporal Colors palette .
• Set the size, resolution, paper texture, and paper color of a new document,
and save presets for frequently used settings, with the
enhanced New
Image dialog box
.
• View smoother-looking images when zooming in onscreen with the
new
High Quality Display option
.
• Enjoy increased speed of rendering images when zooming out with the
enhanced Area-Averaging option .
• Create your own dab profiles by adjusting dab opacity and edge hardness
with the
new Computed Circular brush controls .
• Instantly change brush size, opacity, angle, and squeeze settings on the fly,
within the context of your image with
enhanced dynamic brush
adjustments
.
• Calibrate individual brush variants to match your particular stroke strength
with the
new Brush Calibration controls .